Events

EVENTS

Explore the life of George Orwell – and his last and greatest novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four – with acclaimed Australian writer Dennis Glover, who has reimagined the classic novelist’s final years through fiction in The Last Man in Europe.

With the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, will humans become redundant in the workplace? Rutger Bregman, Simon Longstaff, Toby Walsh and Ally Watson discuss the future of worklessness, and its implications for class and social equality.

The IJCAI Robotics Showcase will be open to the public on Friday 25 August from 12:30pm to 4:30pm.

The Robotics Showcase will highlight current research and development being carried out in robotics by universities and research institutions from across the world. The showcase features:

1. RoboCup Standard Platform League exhibition tournament.The RoboCup Standard Platform league is a humanoid robot soccer competition. Matches will be played on a regular basis in the main foyer.

2. Robotics demonstrations. Several universities and research organisations will be providing demonstrations of their robot platforms in room 208 of the Convention Centre.

3. Robotics video program. International research and development in robotics are highlighted through a series of videos screened inboth the main foyer and alongside the robotics demonstrations in room 208 of the Convention Centre.

Artificial intelligence promises to transform all parts of law and the legal system. From the way that the profession delivers law, the way that judges sentence offenders, and the way that government interacts with citizens, AI technology will fundamentally change our assumptions about the role of humans in the legal system and in legal decision-making.

Come along and hear our three speakers address the way that computers will make legal jobs disappear (and perhaps reappear) and make the legal system work in ways that we have only just begun to imagine.

Proudly presented by Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Philip Catania

Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Prof. Ugo Pagallo

Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Turin

Prof. Mirko Bagaric

Director, Evidence-Based Sentencing and Criminal Justice Project at Swinburne Law School

Implementing artificial intelligence into your work process can lead to greater efficiencies and more power – provided you get it right. Most development in a traditional systems environment follows the usual phases -plan, analyze, design, build, test, and deploy, but the AI environment is quite different.

In this event, our panel will be discussing what you need to know if considering implementing an AI solution in your business.

More and more human work is being automated. In many businesses, such as Uber, an entire level of middle management has been replaced by computers, with workers reporting to computer APIs instead of humans.

What does all this mean for the future of work and our economic systems? Will continued automation lead to the destruction of the very financial system that created it?

Our Panellists

Joanna L. Batstone

Vice President and Lab Director, IBM Research - Australia

Tarah Barzanji

Principal, AlphaBeta

Frances Flanagan

Research Director, United Voice and Research Affiliate, Sydney Environment Institute

Join us for a nightly conversation.

Explore with us the dream of building machines that might think. Every night, we're putting on a conversation where you can meet some of the leading experts in Artificial Intelligence. They will discuss some of the most pressing questions facing society today. Will robots put us all out of work? Will they transform war? Will they even be the end of humanity? Join us for a drink. Listen. Ask questions. Take part in the conversation.